The Literature Network - Geographers use software to 'locate' P.G. Wodehouse's castle; They believe Apley Hall was the model for the author's fictional Blandings Castle

Geographers use software to 'locate' P.G. Wodehouse's castle; They believe Apley Hall was the model for the author's fictional Blandings Castle

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From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
Date: 20030908
Author:ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON (AP) - Blandings Castle, the stately home where Lord Emsworth daydreamed and the porcine Empress wallowed, has been found. Maybe.

The castle, setting for a series of books by comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse, is fictional - but that has not stopped obsessive fans trying to locate it.

Drawing on descriptions in Wodehouse's novels, a pair of geographers from University College London used computer modeling to pinpoint the location of the castle where vague Lord Emsworth lived with his fearsome sisters and his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings.

It's Apley Hall, near Telford in the ...

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